Countdown timer...

Questions & Answers
1

In a game I’m making I want to have a countdown timer that starts at 1:00 and goes down to 0:00. I want the timer to be displayed in some text that I have placed down. I have tried for a long time to get this to work but it just won’t. Please help me.

2

Simple as this:

// Remember using using UnityEngine.UI;

public Text text; // set it to your timer text on GUI

float tim = 60;

void Update()
{
text.text = (Mathf.Floor(tim/(60*60)))+":"+(Mathf.Floor(tim/60)%60)+":"+Mathf.Floor(tim%60);

tim -= Time.deltaTime;
}

Explanation:

1st thing in “text =” is hour counter, next is minute counter modulo 60 so it will display 0-59 minutes and not more because that goes to hour section. Next is seconds modulo 60 because 60 seconds is minute so it displays 0-59 seconds on it.

just in case you dont know what modulo is:

it’s symbol is “%” and it returns rest from division, so 20%21 = 20 and 21%21 = 0 22%21 = 1 and so on. just loop of numbers with given lenght.

3

private float timeInSeconds = 60;

void Update() {
	float minutes = Mathf.FloorToInt (timeInSeconds / 60);
	float seconds = Mathf.FloorToInt (timeInSeconds) % 60;

	Debug.Log (string.Format("{0}:{1}", minutes.ToString("0"), seconds.ToString("00")));

    timeInSeconds -= Time.deltaTime;
}